“For a while, it seemed as if gopher might open the Internet up to the nontechnical masses and usher in a new era of online communication. It very well might have, if the Web hadn’t come along and done it instead”

“Inserting ads on the fly requires a chain of directories, databases and logs, and a long memory. Those auditing trails could be correlated with data collected from Google’s search site or social networking site Orkut, privacy advocates warn”

30 songs, 30 templates…a contest

as if you needed more

“Google’s proposed Gmail service and the practices and policies of its business units raise significant and troubling questions”

“Google historically has operated by a simple guiding rule, according to a January 2003 Wired article: Don’t be evil. As its reach grows, the company increasingly may be called upon to prove its loyalty to that rule”

hey kids, lotsa juicy statistics

“a partial list of papers written by people now at Google, showing the range of backgrounds of people in Google Engineering”

he’s got it all

This is a flash playground in typography

Bookmarklet that colors nested elements for a topographic view of a page

Flash-based visual map of Google News… interesting

/. for the impatient

gui obituary posters

“here are a few Gmail screenshots, featuring conversation threading and collapsable cards”

“Throughout the day, I kept wondering, “Could this be an April Fool’s joke?” Since they announced on April 1, I was essentially thinking about Gmail the whole day”

Many web managers still seem to believe that if they get the technology right the publishing will look after itself.

‘This article is here to explain the elements in the Textpattern structure of design, and their relationship to one another. A correct understanding of Textpattern’s concepts & intended purposes is grease on the waterslide of happiness and fulfillment’

real or fake, you decide